Percona Search for MongoDB Reaches General Availability for Self-Managed Deployments
Percona's new search offering brings full-text, vector, and hybrid search with local embedding generation to self-managed MongoDB, previously tied to Atlas or the Enterprise Advanced license.
Percona announced the general availability of Percona Search for MongoDB on 4 November 2026. The offering delivers full-text, vector, and hybrid search for self-managed deployments, built on MongoDB's mongot engine and integrated with Percona Server for MongoDB and the Percona Operator for MongoDB. It includes local, first-party embedding generation, with roadmap support for Percona Backup for MongoDB and Percona Monitoring and Management planned but not yet available.
The release targets teams running self-managed MongoDB under strict data-residency requirements, providing search and vector capabilities that were previously tied to MongoDB Atlas or the MongoDB Enterprise Advanced license. Performance and compatibility compared with the Atlas-managed mongot service have not yet been independently benchmarked. Production use of the new search capabilities is supported under a Percona support contract, and deployment through the Percona Operator requires an existing MongoDB cluster.